MiniPiano vs Piano Modoki
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MiniPiano
Learn to play the piano with a simple interface that displays scrolling guides instead of traditional sheet music. This app allows for 14 notes of play. For more advanced features, a separate application is available.
- 14-note playability
- Scrolling visual guides
- Alternative to sheet music
- Simple piano interface
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This is SimplyPiano Application Play 14note Please see FingerPiano if you want to perform more note. FingerPiano performance of three octaves. and Instead of reading the score, scrolling guides appear on the screen.
Piano Modoki
This app offers a simple, ad-free musical keyboard experience with piano-like sounds generated through FM synthesis. It provides customizable keyboard layouts, a metronome, and various tuning options for musicians.
- Ad-free musical keyboard
- Customizable key size and layout
- Metronome included
- Adjustable reference pitch
- Key transposition
- Multiple temperament options
- MIDI device support
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A Simple Ad-Free Piano-like Musical Keyboard. Easy to Play, Good Response and Small Application Size. Just Enjoy the Instrument. "Modoki" is a Japanese word that refers to something similar, an imitation, or a mock version of the original. - You can scale key size. - The keyboard can be double rows. - You can flip the second keyboard. - It has a metronome. - You can adjust the frequency of the reference pitch. - You can transpose keys. - It can sound in a just intonation. The app doesn't use sampled real sounds but use FM synthesis. It sounds like piano though it's artificial. Supported temperament: Equal temperament, Just Intonation, Werckmeister III, Kirnberger III. You can connect External and Virtual MIDI devices. Some DAW can import this app's sound via Inter-App Audio. Two sounds, FM Piano-like and FM E.Piano are included by default. "Piano Modoki" can load KQ Dixie's current patch. This app and its description contain machine-translated text.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Piano Modoki at 4.8 against MiniPiano's 4.2. Piano Modoki also leads on review sentiment (86% vs 68%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). MiniPiano's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Piano Modoki holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piano Modoki has 57 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of MiniPiano's written reviews are positive against 86% of Piano Modoki's.
MiniPiano ships an update every 2 months, Piano Modoki every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MiniPiano | Piano Modoki |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (10 ratings) | 4.8 (57 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.3% of reviews | 85.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 57 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Junpei Wada | Ryouta Kira |
Customer experience
MiniPiano
Piano Modoki
Bugs and requests
MiniPiano
Reported bugs
4 issues- Update notification bug
- Syncing issues with iPod/iPhone
- Keys getting stuck
- Unresponsive after updates
Requested features
5 requests- Add more keys/octaves
- Ability to record and playback songs
- Option to change octave/key
- Add more instrument sounds
- Implement a 'baby mode' to prevent accidental exits
Piano Modoki
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MiniPiano
No in-app purchases
Piano Modoki
No in-app purchases
